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__alias··on Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
I'm 25.

Had a test 6 months ago out of curiosity, results came back at under 150. Doctor told me it had to have been a dud and had another test which resulted in around 300.

Results are still significantly below average but the Doctor advised I don't purse TRT or anything as I don't have any adverse symptoms.

I eat healthy, work out fairly regularly and get a fair bit of sun. I often wonder how different my muscle density / focus / sex drive would be at average T levels.

__alias··on Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
FWIW you can select a setting to enable keyboard shortcuts, which are the vi key bindings.

I enabled that a while back which makes navigating emails much more pleasant

__alias··on What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf]
This is also why I like estimating tasks using the Fibonacci scale without a direct correlation to time.

In my teams, we generally set 8 points as something that would take an entire day. Every number after that jumps up in relatively large increments as they are more difficult to accurately determine

__alias··on Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer
Do you have any source for Eddie Hall saying this? I couldn't find anything. This just feels like another blanket body building bro forum comment
__alias··on Google's new logos are bad
Sure, which in that case I guess makes it a good design & business decision.

As a user, I don't see any problem with that either

__alias··on Google's new logos are bad
I actually like the direction they've gone in..

There's a lot of backlash EVERY time there are branding revamps, however in this situation I've been pretty receptive of the changes.

The 'google' colour branding across their app icons is useful as users will instantly associate those colours with being Google's

With my previous Android device I very clearly remember not being able to identify which Calendar app was Google's vs Samsung's. Additionally, I had no idea the old hangouts app icon was Google hangouts, as I never used it. But evidently the icon itself wasn't enough to get my attention as being Google's

The only icon I don't like is the Google docs one as the icon itself doesn't really convey what it is. Atl east know it's obviously from the Google suite though.

__alias··on Bigger v. Facebook, Inc.
I found it hideous. Trying to highlight paragraphs doesn't work either strangely it ends up selecting other page content which makes copying a pain
__alias··on Show HN: An easy and simple landing page builder
First thoughts: Really love the design / theme!
__alias··on Users are suggesting that group video chat app “Houseparty” may have been hacked
Crazy coincidence but the day or two after I downloaded house party I found out my spotify account was compromised (emails showing logins from U.S then soon after Russia).

I've never really experienced any of my accounts in anything being hacked, and while I don't necessarily believe it's linked to HouseParty it does seem like a big coincidence

__alias··on It’s not a zero-sum game for Apple TV+, Netflix, and Disney+
um, Youtube does this. you can buy movies/series for a one time viewing. If you don't watch too many it works out pretty cheap
__alias··on Letting Bird’s scooters fly free
Well these companies do lobby and bid for the rights to do so and ultimately do get permission from the local governments..

So I guess you should also yell at any other people renting public spaces which the town didn't vote for.

__alias··on Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
I for one like the material minimalistic menu items we get now. (Assuming they use standard material design icons) it makes it quickly recognisable and accessible.
__alias··on What predicts students’ drinking habits? How much they think others are drinking
I'm a 23 y/o Kiwi and have recently been self reflecting about my drinking habbits and what I want to make from my life. I drink heavily 2 or 3 nights a week and the problem i have with it is it totally aborbs my weekends. I end up spending my Saturday/Sunday days in bed hungover. The thing I find difficult about taking breaks from drinking is I live with 5 of my best friends and one of them wanting to drink usually convinces the rest of the household. Adding to the fact that there is always MDMA and other drugs floating around makes this harder on my body.
__alias··on Lyft prices IPO at top of range
Surely just get your drivers licence regardless? Doesn't it cause pain and headache not having the ability to legally drive?

On second thought, I guess experience differs a lot based on location. Not having a drivers licence is pretty unimaginable for me where I live.

__alias··on After New Zealand Shooting, Founder of 8chan Expresses Regrets
amazing, thanks
__alias··on Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight
Why do you loathe them?
__alias··on Create Desktop Apps with HTML5 and Go
Electron is bad? Your website is bad and I don't trust anyone with a bad website
__alias··on US iPhone users spent, on average, $79 on apps last year, up 36% from 2017
While I spent a fair bit using app services (Uber, lime primarily), I've just thought about it and realised I'm a heavy mobile phone user but have spent < $10 in total on apps in the last 7 years of being an Android phone user. As a fellow app developer that makes me feel pretty guilty but there's always a free version of whatever I need and I don't play any games.

Is there any must have quality paid apps out there anybody suggests?

__alias··on Snap CFO Tim Stone Is Resigning
Funny, in my group of friends (for context 21-24 year olds, NZ) snapchat is used far more than Instagram.

The primary appeal of snapchat is we can very easily send disposable ugly unfiltered often funny vids/images to groups of people. Where as Instagram is more of a social media and is just used for casual content consumption onl

__alias··on iPad Pro
I've never been upset enough from something I've read in a HN article to comment about it,

but the audacity to talk about intuitive design and then fucking make my vertical scroll wheel scroll the page horizontally is outrageous.

__alias··on Funky Materials Give the Mantis Shrimp Its Powerful Punch
Thank you for linking that classic.
__alias··on Atom 1.28
Sounds like everyone has had similar experiences with trying VS code then falling in love with it
__alias··on I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
I often fondly look back at my initial online gaming memories, where games like Runescape and the early Halo series offered a huge online community feel. As Runescape/Halo series developed and time went on the feelings of the games changed, and people in Runescape were more focused on efficient Exp gaining or competitive playing in Halo. I have yet to experience the same kind of online communities that were present on online gaming in 2006ish
__alias··on Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely
I don't think that's true at all.
__alias··on Swedes turn against cashlessness
blows my mind that people overseas still use cash. Literally the only reason I ever get cash out is to buy weed
__alias··on Blocklist Facebook domains
you run without js by default? God your internet must be boring :)
__alias··on Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting
What's the hardware product? It's not like the counterfeit version will take over your product that fast and you'll always be able to keep a local market.
__alias··on Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share
Have you ever considered that you might be narcissistic? Why on earth would you want to go on social media only to view self centred experiences?
__alias··on Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
There's a VR webapp that was shared recently that shows live btc transactions. Just thought i'd share that for the 10 minutes I watched it the other day I saw numerous 10M+ transactions
__alias··on Android Studio 3.0 Release Notes
what's its flaw?
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